Solution Guide: Application Performance Management

Overview: Application performance management today sits at a juncture that crosses many disciplines and domains: software dev, applications in production, IT services, desktops, mainframes, web, mobile, cloud services, virtualization, app testing, network infrastructure, databases, and storage. This report aims to clarify the definition of an APM solution, and how vendors (new and established) are taking them forward. Also OVUM provides a SWOT analysis for the solutions along with features assessment; the results are summarized in the Ovum APM Rainbow Map.